The Fabulous POP Model - stprojectorg

2 P Tagg: Analysing Popular Music (1982, minor revisions 2015) Amsterdam in June 1981, The Times Diary printed the headline ‘Going Dutch - The Don- nish Disciples of Pop’ (The Times 16 June 1981)

Selling or Selling Out?: An Exploration of Popular Music in

Pop music was intended to be commercial and accessible to the public, with lyrics and melodies that tend to be catchy and memorable Two noteworthy examples of this genre are the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync Both boy bands became successful through recording and releasing songs that are very much in the style of the “pop music” genre

Music as a weapon: Using popular culture to combat social

pop music “can be used to illustrate that prejudice and discrimination—color lines and injustice— still exist in our own country” (p 261) and that well-chosen examples can make the theretofore inaccessible concept of institutional discrimination comprehensible

ROCKONOMICS: THE ECONOMICS OF POPULAR MUSIC*

the lines? Here, we will define popular music as music that has a wide following, is produced by contemporary artists and composers, and does not require public subsidy to survive This definition rules out classical music and publicly supported orchestras It includes rock and roll, pop, rap, bebop, jazz, blues and many other genres What about

GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS

art-music: a general term used to describe the "formal concert music" traditions of the West, as opposed to "popular" and "commercial music" styles art song : (genre) a musical setting of artistic poetry for solo voice accompanied by piano (or orchestra)